VITA PHEDRI
A
JOHANNE SCHEFFERO
Argentoratenfi compofita
Hadrus, cujus pauci meminerunt apud veteres
fi non ante, fub Augufto faltem natus fuit.
Virgilium profecto ac Ovidium eft emulatus,
qui utrique fub Augufto floruere.
Augufti mentionem facit ipfe, tanquam ejus,
fub quo vixerit, cujufque gefta quadam obfer-
varit. Nam cum lib. III. c. 10. præmifif
Qatin imo
fet:
Narrabo tibi, memoria quod factum eft mea,
fubdit:
A Divo Augufto tunc petiere judices
ipfe indicat præfat. lib. III. his ver-
Patriam habuit Thraciam, ut
bis:
Cur fomno inerti deferam patrie decus?
Threiffa cum gens numeret auctores fuos,
Linoque Apollo fit parens, Mufa Orpheo.
Sed
ROM PHAEDRI AUG. LIBERTI FABULARUM
AESOPIARUM LIBRI V, printed by Francis Halma at
Amsterdam in 1701, with notes and Dutch translation
David Hoogstraten and many engraved illustrations
by J. V. Vianen. Phaedrus lived in the First Century of
our era, and was a freedman of the Emperor Augustus.
He made Latin versions of the terse little tales which
even in his day had gradually acquired the name of
Aesop and have since passed into every language as proverbs and figures
of speech. Phaedrus had many imitators, the most famous of whom was
La Fontaine who, however, greatly surpassed him in vivacity and humor.
This Dutch edition is set in a large clean roman type, and the page is
rendered peculiarly decorative by either a copper engraved initial letter
O 1926, T. F. I.
or a beautiful vignette illustrating the fable.
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Aesepiarumlior translated by David oobstrat
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